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Claude Opus 4.8

SupersededReleased May 28, 2026ProprietaryReasoning1M context

Released May 28, 2026 see all recent releases

Decision reading
Claude Opus 4.8 scores 76.5 out of 100 and ranks #8 of 226. This profile shows 33 source-displayable benchmark rows; its strongest eligible category is Mathematics at #2. API pricing is $5 input and $25 output per million tokens.

Data as of August 27, 2026 · How the score is built

Strongest published evidence

Mathematics ranks #2. Particularly strong for mathematical reasoning, scientific computing, and quantitative analysis.

Validate before choosing

33 published rows leave some tracked benchmark slots empty. Agentic is its lowest eligible category at #16.

Decision snapshot

Each value carries a field reference instead of floating alone. Markers compare this model with the current ranked and priced catalog; they are not absolute quality thresholds.

Capability

76.5/100

field median 58.3

#8 of 226 ranked models

Price

$5input / $25 output

input median $1

blended $15

Speed

61tok/s

field median 97 tok/s

First token 26.63 s

Context

1Mtokens

field median 203,000

Maximum output length is tracked separately

Capability shape

Each axis shows percentile within that category’s eligible cohort. The comparison outline is the median of the six nearest public-score peers; a collapsed vertex means the category is not rank-eligible.

Claude Opus 4.8 category percentile values

  • Agentic89th percentile
  • Coding95th percentile
  • ReasoningNot eligible
  • Knowledge97th percentile
  • Math83rd percentile
  • MultilingualNot eligible
  • Multimodal91st percentile
  • Instruction followingNot eligible

The dashed outline is median of 6 nearest peers.

Eligible category ranks

  1. Agentic#16/138
  2. Coding#8/144
  3. ReasoningNot ranked
  4. Knowledge#3/60
  5. Math#2/7
  6. MultilingualNot ranked
  7. Multimodal#4/35
  8. Inst. FollowingNot ranked
Top decileTop quartileMid-fieldNot eligible

What it costs to get this score

Published API price against the public score. The x-axis uses a log scale; the dashed path marks models that are not beaten by a cheaper, higher-scoring option. Price uses average of published input and output rates.

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The chart opens on the current model. Scroll horizontally to inspect the full price axis.

Current modelClaude Opus 4.8 · 76.5 score · $15 blended per million tokens
405060708090$0.50$1$5$10$25$50$100↘ frontierClaude Opus 4.8

Horizontal: blended price per million tokens, log scale · Vertical: public score

How much of this is verified

Coverage is split by category so a strong number never hides a thin evidence base. Verified means the row is tied to a published source; provisional rows remain visible but separate.

  1. Agentic11/11 verified
  2. Coding8/8 verified
  3. Reasoning2/2 verified
  4. Knowledge4/4 verified
  5. Math3/3 verified
  6. Multilingual1/1 verified
  7. Multimodal4/4 verified
  8. Inst. FollowingNot measured
Verified sourceProvisionalNot measured

Spec sheet

Each documented value carries its source. Missing fields stay visible as not sourced or not published, rather than disappearing from the page.

API model ID
claude-opus-4-8Anthropic model overview
Context window
1MAnthropic model overview
Maximum output
Not sourced yet
Knowledge cutoff
Not sourced yet
Input modalities
text, imageAnthropic model overview
Output modalities
textAnthropic model overview
Parameters
Not disclosed by the provider
Availability
Claude APIAnthropic model overview
Cloud regions
Not tracked yet
API capabilities
Tool calling, structured outputs, and batch support are not tracked yet
Prompt caching
Not documented in the pricing record
Self-host
Weights are not published
Rate limits
Not tracked yet

Category score record

Scores and ranks appear only where published evidence can be displayed. The table keeps the score, weight, cohort, and evidence state together.

Category scores, ranks, weighting, benchmark coverage, and evidence status
CategoryScore
AgenticRank #16 of 138Percentile 89thWeight 22%11 benchmarksVerified61.2
CodingRank #8 of 144Percentile 95thWeight 20%8 benchmarksVerified72.0
ReasoningRank Not rankedWeight 17%2 benchmarksVerified68.3
KnowledgeRank #3 of 60Percentile 97thWeight 12%4 benchmarksVerified86.8
MathRank #2 of 7Percentile 83rdWeight 5%3 benchmarksVerified66.8
MultilingualWeight 7%1 benchmarkVerifiedScore pending
MultimodalRank #4 of 35Percentile 91stWeight 12%4 benchmarksVerified85.4
Inst. FollowingWeight 5%0 benchmarksNot measuredNot measured

Benchmark ledger

Coding opens by default. The marker compares each value with the best source-verified result in the catalog; provisional leaders do not set the reference. Expand the remaining categories for every published row.

Coding8 rows
Coding benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
SWE-bench VerifiedSoftware Engineering Benchmark VerifiedScore88.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 96%

Gap7.4 behindWeightWeighted 16%
SWE-bench ProScore69.2%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Mythos 5 · 80.3%

Gap11.1 behindWeightWeighted 10%
SWE MultilingualScore84.4%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 89.5%

Gap5.1 behindWeightDisplay only
SWE MultimodalSWE-bench MultimodalScore38.4%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 59.4%

Gap21 behindWeightDisplay only
Terminal-Bench 2.0Score74.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 91.9%

Gap17.3 behindWeightDisplay only
cursorBench31Score58.4%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Fable 5 · 70.6%

Gap12.2 behindWeightDisplay only
cursorBench32Score62.3%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Grok 4.6 · 70.8%

Gap8.5 behindWeightDisplay only
FrontierCode 1.1 MainScore46.5%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Fable 5 · 53.5%

Gap7 behindWeightDisplay only
Agentic11 rows
Agentic benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
Terminal-Bench 2.0Score74.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 91.9%

Gap17.3 behindWeightWeighted 38%
OSWorld-VerifiedScore83.4%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Qwen3.8 Max · 86.1%

Gap2.7 behindWeightWeighted 34%
BrowseCompScore84.3%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 92.2%

Gap7.9 behindWeightWeighted 28%
Terminal-Bench 3.0Score21.1%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 42.7%

Gap21.6 behindWeightDisplay only
DeepSearchQAScore93.1%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 95.0%

Gap1.9 behindWeightDisplay only
Finance Agent v2Score53.9%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Gemini 3.5 Flash · 57.9%

Gap4 behindWeightDisplay only
MCP AtlasScore82.2%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Muse Spark 1.1 · 88.1%

Gap5.9 behindWeightDisplay only
ToolathlonScore59.9%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Muse Spark 1.1 · 75.6%

Gap15.7 behindWeightDisplay only
Gert LabsGert Labs Composite Game BenchmarkScore72.97%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 4.8 · 72.97%

GapBest verifiedWeightDisplay only
Benchmark exact
ResearchClawBenchScore21.1%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 4.8 · 21.1%

GapBest verifiedWeightDisplay only
OSWorld 2.0Score20.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 70.6%

Gap50 behindWeightDisplay only
Benchmark exact
Reasoning2 rows
Reasoning benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
ARC-AGI-2Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for AGI v2Score72.1%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 92.5%

Gap20.4 behindWeightWeighted 31%
ARC-AGI-3Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for AGI v3Score1.5%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 30.2%

Gap28.6 behindWeightDisplay only
Knowledge4 rows
Knowledge benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
HLEHumanity's Last ExamScore57.9%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 64.7%

Gap6.8 behindWeightWeighted 45%
GPQAGraduate-Level Google-Proof Q&AScore93.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Sakana Fugu-Ultra · 95.5%

Gap1.9 behindWeightWeighted 7%
GPQA-DGPQA DiamondScore93.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Sakana Fugu-Ultra · 95.5%

Gap1.9 behindWeightDisplay only
HLE w/o toolsHumanity's Last Exam without toolsScore49.8%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Mythos 5 · 59%

Gap9.2 behindWeightDisplay only
Math3 rows
Math benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3Score47.241%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 89.000%

Gap41.8 behindWeightWeighted 30%
USAMO 2026United States of America Mathematical Olympiad 2026Score96.7%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Mythos 5 · 97.6%

Gap0.9 behindWeightWeighted 10%
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)FrontierMath v2 Tier 4Score31.250%Versus best verified row

Best verified: GPT-5.6 Sol · 83.000%

Gap51.8 behindWeightWeighted 10%
Multilingual1 row
Multilingual benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
INCLUDEScore87.6%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 89.8%

Gap2.2 behindWeightDisplay only
Multimodal4 rows
Multimodal benchmark values, best verified comparison, weight, and source status
OfficeQA ProScore66.2%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 5 · 66.9%

Gap0.7 behindWeightWeighted 30%
CharXivCharXiv ReasoningScore89.9%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Mythos 5 · 93.5%

Gap3.6 behindWeightWeighted 25%
ScreenSpot ProScore87.9%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Opus 4.8 · 87.9%

GapBest verifiedWeightDisplay only
CharXiv w/o toolsCharXiv Reasoning without toolsScore80.5%Versus best verified row

Best verified: Claude Mythos 5 · 88.9%

Gap8.4 behindWeightDisplay only

Lineage

The sequence follows explicit supersedes links. Scores and prices remain blank when the corresponding public row or first-party rate is unavailable.

  1. February 2026

    Claude Opus 4.6

    Score 68.1 · $5 / $25

  2. Apr 16, 2026

    Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)

    Score 72.4 · $5 / $25

  3. May 28, 2026 · you are here

    Claude Opus 4.8

    Score 76.5 · $5 / $25

  4. Jul 24, 2026

    Claude Opus 5

    Score 82.9 · $5 / $25

Base entry

How to read this profile

The visual layer above carries the decisions. These notes preserve the model, ranking, coverage, and family context behind the numbers.

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #8 of 226 on the public leaderboard with a score of 76.45/100. Its source-verified position is #8 of 105.

Claude Opus 4.8 is a proprietary model with a 1M context window. It uses an explicit reasoning mode, which can improve complex problem solving while adding latency and token use.

Anthropic's May 28, 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 release, supplemented by CursorBench v3.1 and CursorBench v3.2's Opus 4.8 Max setting. BenchLM maps the official system-card capability snapshot using adaptive thinking / max-effort settings where Anthropic reports them, and keeps PDF-only metrics with incompatible or newly introduced scoring surfaces in the Opus 4.8 benchmark backlog note.

Its explicit predecessor is Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive). 33 of 406 tracked benchmark slots currently have displayable evidence. Missing categories stay blank.

Its strongest eligible category is Mathematics at #2, while its lowest eligible position is Agentic at #16. particularly strong for mathematical reasoning, scientific computing, and quantitative analysis.

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Frequently asked questions

How does Claude Opus 4.8 perform overall in AI benchmarks?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #8 out of 226 models on the public BenchAlign leaderboard, with a score of 76.45/100. Its evidence status is Supported, and this profile shows 33 source-displayable benchmark rows. The label describes evidence depth, not a provider quality claim; inspect category rows before choosing a workload.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for knowledge and understanding?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #3 out of 60 eligible models for knowledge and understanding, with a public category score of 86.8/100. That places it in the current top ten for this category. Check the underlying rows before treating the aggregate as a workload guarantee.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for coding and programming?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #8 out of 144 eligible models for coding and programming, with a public category score of 72/100. That places it in the current top ten for this category. Check the underlying rows before treating the aggregate as a workload guarantee.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for mathematics?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #2 out of 7 eligible models for mathematics, with a public category score of 66.8/100. That places it in the current top ten for this category. Check the underlying rows before treating the aggregate as a workload guarantee.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for reasoning and logic?

Claude Opus 4.8 has source-displayable benchmark coverage for reasoning and logic, but the public category table does not assign it a rank there. The individual rows remain available for inspection. A missing category position means the evidence threshold was not met; it does not convert the model's unmeasured work into a zero.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #16 out of 138 eligible models for agentic tool use and computer tasks, with a public category score of 61.2/100. Higher-ranked alternatives are available for workloads where this category decides the choice. Check the underlying rows before treating the aggregate as a workload guarantee.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for multimodal and grounded tasks?

Claude Opus 4.8 ranks #4 out of 35 eligible models for multimodal and grounded tasks, with a public category score of 85.4/100. That places it in the current top ten for this category. Check the underlying rows before treating the aggregate as a workload guarantee.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 good for multilingual tasks?

Claude Opus 4.8 has source-displayable benchmark coverage for multilingual tasks, but the public category table does not assign it a rank there. The individual rows remain available for inspection. A missing category position means the evidence threshold was not met; it does not convert the model's unmeasured work into a zero.

Does Claude Opus 4.8 have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?

No. Claude Opus 4.8 currently has 50 source-displayable rows across 406 tracked benchmark slots. The profile exposes published, non-generated evidence and leaves missing categories blank until an exact evaluation is available. Coverage describes how much was measured; it is not a penalty added to an individual benchmark result.

What is the context window size of Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 has a documented context window of 1M. That figure is the maximum combined prompt and retained-conversation space reported for this exact model; it is not the maximum output length. The profile keeps output limits separate because providers often publish those limits independently.

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